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Settler Tour, settler harassment in occupied Khalil
16th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On Saturday, June 15, Israeli settlers and occupation soldiers spread through the old city of Hebron as part of a very provocative weekly tour that disrupts the daily lives of Palestinians living in the area. This week, soldiers also invaded the homes…
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For Urif the price can never be high enough
15th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Urif, Occupied Palestine On Tuesday, 11th June, Israeli forces invaded the village of Urif and arrested nine youths between the ages of eighteen and twenty-seven. This incident is believed by the villagers to be related to the ‘price-tag’ settler attacks that the village suffered on…
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Israel bars children over eight from visiting fathers in prison
15th June 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine On 20 May, Obeida Shamali visited his father, Ahmad Abd Alraheem Shamali, in Israel’s Nafha prison. It was the first time they had seen each other since Israeli forces captured Ahmad in August 2008. “I was very happy,” the seven-year-old said. He was…
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Settler harassment in Tel Rumeida
15th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Saeeda | Hebron, Occupied Palestine I am an ISM activist living in the occupied city of Hebron. I arrived home late in the evening of Friday, June 14, and outside my door some of the neighborhood kids had built a small fire and were cooking corn. They tried…
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Ni’lin: Words versus the occupation
14th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Nil’in, Occupied Palestine On Friday, 14 June, around fifteen residents of Nil’in marched toward Israel’s apartheid wall in the latest of it’s regular protests against the systematic confiscation of their land via the wall and five surrounding Israeli colonies. The wall itself is covered in…
